Word: pigeoning
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...investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands to bring his fight into the open, which he did by blanketing Brooklyn with 1,402 subpoenas for financial records and bank accounts, to expose the workings of the Geoghan office since...
...movements of a pigeon deprived of thiamin "consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
...Julie, Francis Stuart traces the process in a straightforward book that is notable for its characterization of a 15-year-old girl, especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish-imaginative, poetical, mystical novels in which metaphors skyrocketed and prose flickered so brightly that characters and plot were hard to make out. Julie is plain as an old shoe. For Author Stuart describes Julie's conquering of her fear of the world as a slow process, almost imperceptible, taking place principally when...
...shrilled the arrival of another day. Laboriously he opens an eye. Hmm, only six o'clock. At least four hours before the mind will be able to concentrate on work. Raising his head, he looks out the open window. Sun on towers and chimneys already. A pigeon coos on a nearby ledge. Four stories below a watchman's heavy feet lumber past, echoing dully. Hot Golly, it's hot. But why, the Vagabond wonders, after nine months training to the contrary, should he suddenly wake up early? Just to worship nature on a beautiful morning? Definitely no--sleep...
...lawyer named James Hobson Morrison to organize them into the Louisiana Farmers Protective Union and protect them from the chain stores. James Morrison took a sound truck around the State, before long had 10,000 members. By last week he had made almost every chain "kiss a pigeon"- which in Louisiana means to knuckle under, to cry Uncle...